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MIFF 2009 Tickets & Passes Individual Tickets - $9* (*$12 for special events, including Opening, Closing, Centerpiece, Billy Bang, and Lifetime Achievement Award screenings); Individual tickets are ONLY available on this website until NOON on the day of the show, or at Festival venues shortly before show time. Please note that individual tickets are not available by phone.
| The Rivals |
 Could there be any more different Maine towns than Rumford and Cape Elizabeth? Rumford is a working class town in the western mountains, where the paper mill is one of the region’s primary employers. Cape Elizabeth is an affluent Portland suburb, nestled in the lap of the sea and of luxury. But when Cape Elizabeth, which had had no tradition of high school football at all, starts a team and finds a coach who turns it from a doormat to an undefeated championship contender in just a few years, a rivalry is born with perennial powerhouse Rumford, a rivalry whose roots go far beyond what happens between the goal posts... more & buy tickets
| | The Speed of Life |
 At an early edition of MIFF, director Ed Radtke made a big splash with his indie feature . He’s back with a truly original work, shot in many film formats and full of the vibrancy and yes, speed, of life itself... more & buy tickets
| | The Weather Underground showing with Clear Glasses (with Mark Rudd in person) |
 Mark Rudd, political activist, math professor and author of the new autobiography Underground, will introduce Oscar nominee The Weather Underground, in which he is a principal figure, and a new short, Clear Glasses, by The Weather Underground co-director Sam Green, in which he is the central figure. In the ‘60s, Rudd embodied student protest as one of the leaders of the famous student rebellion at Columbia University, and in the ‘70s, was a fugitive from the law as a member of the Weathermen and Weather Underground, who sought to overthrow the government of the U. S... more & buy tickets
| | Visions 2009: Eaten Up Planet showing with On a Phantom Limb |
| Visions 2009 features two films that explore the cutting edge of creativity, expression and beauty. . ... more & buy tickets
| | War Against the Weak |
 We recoil in horror from Joseph Mengele’s and the Nazis’ barbaric Holocaust experiments, but how many know his work was based on the principles of the American eugenics movement? Based on Edwin Black’s book of the same name, War Against the Weak traces the efforts of American eugenicists to breed a Nordic master race through the elimination of those deemed “unfit. ” With an eerie blend of both historical and first-hand accounts, the film makes chilling connections between Ivy League scientists funded by the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Harriman Railroad fortune and German racial scientists at the William Kaiser Institute; between mass sterilization and sometimes even euthanasia in the U. S... more & buy tickets
| | Wedding Song (Le Chant dez Mariees) |
 Tunis, Tunisia, 1942. Nour and Myriam, 16, have been friends since childhood. They share the same house in a modest neighborhood where Jews and Muslims live in harmony... more & buy tickets
| | World Shorts Showcase |
 This selection of shorts from around the world is comprised of filmmaking styles from documentary to animation, and in topics both serious and most emphatically not. . ... more & buy tickets
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